WordStats for Comp. 762 View the Azed Slip | ◀ 757 | 764 ▶ | Other competitions
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No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
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762 | Dec 1986 | OBELISE | normal | 23 |
Competition 762’s average clue lengths over 23 clues:
42 letters per clue (3 below the archive average, and 2 below the average for 7-letter words)
8.8 words per clue (0.8 below the archive average, and 0.4 below the average for 7-letter words)
Longest clue (the 466th longest normal clue in the archive)
Allege corruption against a BBC TV programme made in Libya? End of these blasted lies
70 letters, 15 words, by W. G. Arnott
Shortest clue (the 407th shortest normal clue in the archive)
To make one ‘see below’, do we ——?
21 letters, 7 words, by H. J. Bradbury
Competition 762 has contributed 18 unique words to the clue archive:
T. E. Sanders | Affix |
W. G. Arnott | Allege |
W. G. Arnott | BBC |
D. F. Manley | boist |
A. W. Hill | dedicatee |
Mrs D. B. Jenkinson | expunge |
M. R. Whiteoak | fifty-one |
A. W. Hill | German’s |
P. F. Henderson | gospels |
J. D. D. Blaikie | hotly |
P. F. Henderson | insufficient |
W. G. Arnott | Libya |
N. C. Dexter | Loeb’s |
D. F. Manley | OED’s |
R. J. Hooper | Raleigh |
M. R. Whiteoak | Reprobate |
C. J. Brougham | Slang |
D. S. Nagle | unacceptability |